The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-15
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ACCORDING TO PROMISE; or, The Lords Meth
cd of Dealing with His Chosen People. By
Chas. II. Spurgeon. Price rs cents.
This is a volume of $50 pages, containing
short practical sermons based on appropri-
ate Scripture texts. 1t is strongly tinctured
with the authors peculiar theological views,
which limit the promises to particular class
named in the book as Goods People," But
if one can read it without such Limitation,
taking the whole world of mankind in as
Gods children and not special few as
Goods people" it might be read with profit.
The spirit of the book is admirable; not SO
its theology. Funk & Wagnalls, New York.
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS STORY OF "JAoK. !"
This was first published in the Century for
form by Houghton, Miffiin & Co., of Boston.
The binding is new, being partly of white linen
and partly of dull blue paper. Price SOC.
The story attracted wide attention when it
appeared in the magazine, which is the rea-
son, doubtless, for its appearance in the
form it now has. 1t is pitiful story of g
fisherman lad who married foolish, way
ward girl whom he found in Boston, in not
the most savory quarter, nor indeed of un-
Improbable morals, but who promised to be
faithful and true to him, and who was 80, 80
long as she lived. In q fit of drunken, jeal-
ous madness, he killed her. He went out
from their miserable home and shipped on
n Hshi nn
the floor. When the vessel came back to
Fair Harbor port he was told by shipmate
what he had done, and that the officers of
the law were waiting for him. He jumped
overheard and was drowned. A most mis-
cradle story. sad and sickening in its details,
and yet so wondrously dramatic, SO realistic,
SO entirely true and so common in the world
reader, which will not pass with the moment.
The realism of our modern novels and short
stories is so complete as almost to forbid the
use of the word "fiction" in connection with
them. There is one thing to be said in its
favor, however much one may ieplore it 9th
erwise; that is, it calls attention to the actual
circumstances and situations in the lives of
people about us; it teaches the one half of
the world how the other half lives. The mis-
cradle little drama of the life of Teen and
her drunken husband, who at last murdered
her and drowned himself, will reach the
hearts of hundreds of people through the
genius of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, who
would never have known or cared for it if
it had actually occurred in real life within q
stones throw of their own dwellings. The
more the world knows of these things the
better it will be prepared to deal with such
persons as Jack and Teen; but their day of
deliverance is long way off yet as much by
their own misfortune as by other peoples
fault.
Protection or Free Trade, new work by
Henry George, is an examination of the
tariff question, with especial regard to the
interests of labor. Whatever we may think
of Mr.. Georges politico- theories,
there is no question of the fact that he is a
most eloquent and pictorial writer on a theme
which is rarely made attractive to the popu-
lar reader. The present volume is a remark
ably clear and vigorous discussion of ques-
tons which are now at the front for atten-
ton in this country and which are likely to
remain there for some time. The authors
opinions are we'll known in connection with
the discussion elected by his famous book on
progress and Poverty" In this new work
we have another exposition of those opinions
with more direct reference to the rival theo-
Iies of political economy which divide the
American people into two hostile political
camps. In view of the sharp dissection which
protection receives in this work, the adher-
ents of that doctrine may find comfort in the
exposition of free trade which Mr.. George
preseDts-"true free trade"-in his view, lead
ing logically to the adoption of those spec
ial theories of common property in land
which are now so widely associated with the
leadership of Henry George. The volume is
published by the authors Arm, Henry George
& Co., l6 Aston Place, New York, Price SLIGO.
Lee & Shepard, Of Boston, have issued a
new edition of The Legend Of Thomas called
DidyBus, by James Freeman Clarke. II
gives the story of Thomas, the doubling
Apostle, in his personal relations to Jesus